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Gainesville, Florida
Museum Type: Historic House
The Alachua County Trust: Matheson Museum, Inc. is a non-profit museum and archives dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history and culture of Alachua County. Open 9:30am-1:30pm Tuesday-Friday and Sundays 1-5pm.
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Archer, Florida
Museum Type: Historical Society
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Gainesville, Florida
Museum Type: Archaeology, Natural History, Science
Visitors to the Florida Museum, on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, can enjoy hundreds of exotic butterflies in a rainforest setting, witness a South Florida Calusa Indian welcoming ceremony, experience a life-size limestone cave, and see a mammoth and mastodon from the last Ice Age. Permanent exhibits include Northwest Florida: Waterways and Wildlife, South Florida People and Envi...
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Gainesville, Florida
Museum Type: Art
The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida opened in 1990. The Mary Ann Harn Cofrin Pavilion opened in October 2005 and includes exhibition space, a café and classrooms.
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Gainesville, Florida
Museum Type: Botanical Garden, Science
Kanapaha Botanical Gardens is a 62 acre facility developed and operated by the North Florida Botanical Society, a non-profit educational organization. In 1978, the Society signed a lease agreement with Alachua County whereby it gained access to a 33 acre tract of land for the development of a public botanical garden; in 1982, an additional 29 acre parcel was added to the lease, bringing Kanapaha B...
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Micanopy, Florida
Museum Type: History, Historical Society
Exhibits reflect local history from Timucuan Indians to arrival of the Spanish, early settlement in the beginning 1800's, the Seminole Wars, Civil War, and town development to the present. Museum open daily 1-4 pm, archives by appointment. Gift Shop.Phone 466-3200; website www.afn.org/~micanopy
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Gainesville, Florida
Museum Type: Natural History
Gainesville’s premier nature park, Morningside Nature Center, is one of the last remaining examples of fire-dependent longleaf pine woodlands in the area. More than seven miles of trails wind through sandhill, flatwoods, cypress domes, and areas where native vegetation is being restored. Morningside boasts a spectacular wildflower display and opportunity to see a diverse array of wildlife.
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Gainesville, Florida
Museum Type: Science, University, Zoo
The SFCC Teaching Zoo is the local zoo for the Gainesville area and the laboratory for the Zoo Animal Technology Program. In this program, students from all over the United States learn to work with animals in captivity. After graduating from our program, students find employment in zoos and other animal related fields all over the country. For more information about the Teaching Zoo or the Zoo An...
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Gainesville, Florida
Museum Type: Art, Historic House
Considered Gainesville's cultural center, the Thomas Center is housed in a beautifully restored Mediterranean Revival-style hotel. The Thomas Center is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and contains art galleries, 1920's period rooms, local history exhibits, performance space, banquet rooms, and meeting rooms. The Thomas Center is surrounded by the lovely Thomas Center Gardens an...
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Gainesville, Florida
Museum Type: Art, University
THE UNIVERSITY GALLERIES are an essential component of the research and service missions of the University of Florida. Exhibitions enhance and challenge the bodies of knowledge in various studio disciplines.
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Exhibitions
Saturday, April 21, 2007 - Thursday, December 31, 2009
This exhibit of Charles Knight paintings is displayed in the Florida Museum's Hall of Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land.
Monday, March 9, 2009 - Sunday, January 3, 2010
This exhibit highlights the role of butterflies in the belief system and art of contemporary Zuni people, Native Americans who live in the high desert of the American southwest. Many Zuni traditional arts feature butterflies and moths, and this tradition continues today in their fine arts, crafts and tourist art forms. Pieces in the exhibit include jewelry, paintings, small carvings and various selections of pottery.
Thursday, April 16 - Sunday, August 16, 2009
Saturday, June 13 - Monday, September 7, 2009
In “Amazing Butterflies,” visitors experience the challenges of being a caterpillar as it morphs into a beautiful butterfly through a hands-on human maze of larger-than-life leaves, grass and trees. Along the way, they discover the ways caterpillars move, what they eat and how other creatures help them achieve their transformation.
Saturday, May 23 - Sunday, July 12, 2009
The art exhibition includes 10 artists and over 50 works of works in a variety of media. Exhibiting artists include: Valarie Aslakson-Jennings, Nicola Barsaleau, Joanna Clark, Kana Handel, Sue Jester, Cindy Pagel, Leslie Peebles, Stewart Thomas, Vasanto and Pat Wolfe.
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